People said, "I'll give you my recipe, because I want you to remember me."
Claudia Roden is a cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist born in Cairo, Egypt who lives in London. Her eleven cookbooks include The Good Food of Italy: Region by Region, The New Book of Middle Eastern Food, Picnics and Other Outdoor Feasts, Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon, and The Book of Jewish Food. She has hosted a cooking show for the BBC, and is co-chair of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.